A Strategic Research and Education Center for an Integrated Apporoachto Language, Brain and Cognition

1. Training Details

The Cognitive Linguistics Laboratory provides opportunities to intensively study the following subjects through tutorials and lectures during the training period of up to three months:
[1] Basic hypotheses and major theories (models) of cognitive linguistics
[2] The relationship between linguistic faculties and general cognitive faculties (calculation, deduction, faculty of sight, etc.)
[3] Typological and contrastive studies of grammatical constructions
In describing and explaining linguistic diversity
[4] Synthesis of cognitive linguistics and brain science
The time of commencement, period and number of trainees will be decided upon consultation with the instructor.

2. Staff Profiles

Tadao Miyamoto, Professor
　
Division of Intercultural Relations, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Ph.D, University of Victoria, Canada
Discipline: Cognitive linguistics
E-mail:
Related websites: http://web.uvic.ca/ling/faculty/miyamoto.htm

Kaoru Horie, Professor
　
Division of Intercultural Relations, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Ph.D, University of Southern California, USA
Discipline: Cognitive linguistics, Linguistic typology, Japanese-Korean contrastive linguistics,
Historical linguistics
Related websites: http://nana.insc.tohoku.ac.jp

Satoshi Uehara, Professor

Division of Intercultural Relations, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Ph.D, University of Michigan, USA
Discipline: Cognitive linguistics, Linguistic typology, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Related websites: http://intcul.tohoku.ac.jp/interculinterling

Heiko Narrog, Associate Professor

Division of Intercultural Relations, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Ph.D, University of Bochum, Germany
Discipline:

3. Contact

Cognitive Linguistics Laboratory （Lab supervisor: Professor Horie）
TEL/FAX: 022-217-7842　